After watching the series Ancient Apocalypse I had some thoughts I just want to get down before they drive me mad. A friend commented in a group online that their entire school district’s internet has been knocked out by an 18-wheeler hitting the source. I joked that they’d have to do analog teaching as weContinue reading “Random thoughts”
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When did you last sleep upon the ground?
Or even sit on her, skin to skin with the planet? When did you last touch a tree, bare-handed, to marvel at the roughness? When did you last say hello to a bird? And mean it? In my readings I find fiction to be a welcome respite. I “save” books about nature for later becauseContinue reading “When did you last sleep upon the ground?”
Routine
Predictability is tiresome to me. I know that most creatures, humans as well, thrive on routines, but to me they’re maddening. I’m a morning person and love getting up with the sun, but as soon as the stretching is done I have to slip back into the usual every morning and it makes me wantContinue reading “Routine”
Drawing a circle
It’s so odd looking back now. Every relationship I’ve been in, how I thought I was a whole, interesting, solid person. Then years past I look back and see nothing but the scared girl I was. I grew up thinking I’d had an idyllic childhood. Who else’s parents bring her up on her grandparent’s airport?Continue reading “Drawing a circle”
Absence of silence
“Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.” – Henry David Thoreau “The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I mayContinue reading “Absence of silence”
A Burd in Flight 